Jazz Party Games Through an A–Z directory

Through an A–Z directory

With an identity outside of her family

His impressionistic take on the notorious Charles Starkweather killing spree of the late 1950s uses a serial-killer narrative as a springboard for an oblique teenage romance

the hallucinations that only she can see

unpublished interviews

Jazz Party Games Through an A–Z directoryJoe Trace in his fifties, door to door salesman, erstwhile devoted husband shoots dead his eighteen year old lover. At the funeral, his determined, hard working wife, Violet, who is given to stumbling into dark mental cracks, tries with a knife to disfigure the corpse. Passionate and profound, Jazz brings us back and forth in time, in a narrative assembled from the hopes, fears and realities of black urban life.